Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television's oldest live dramatic shows were consigned to oblivion last week. Both Kraft TV Theater and Westinghouse's Studio One announced that they were giving up at the end of the present season...
...king of the TV comedians, was faring less well. Reunited early this year with Imogene Coca, Caesar tried a comeback on ABC, ran into the heavy opposition of the Dinah Shore Show on NBC. Last week Sponsor Helena Rubinstein announced that she would drop him at month's end...
...Rich to New York within six hours). By encouraging his curators to build up the museum's print, decorative arts and Oriental collections, by starting a photography section and by "sneaking in" a new department of primitive art, Rich has kept the Art Institute growing. But in the end he found himself overwhelmed by administrative detail that "was taking me far away from...
...drawn his straight from life. After Mussolini's return to power in 1943 as a Nazi puppet, Moravia, who had been editing an anti-Fascist magazine, hid out for nine months "in a pigsty on top of a mountain'' near Monte Cassino. For chapters on end, readers of Two Women may feel that they are doing the same...
...women's morale. Before the desecrated altar of a shattered church, Rosetta is raped by a squad of French Moroccan soldiers. Her traumatic reaction is to become indiscriminately promiscuous. Cesira, in turn, is reduced to robbing one of her daughter's slain paramours. At novel's end, only the profound Latin conviction that the first duty of life is to go on living keeps the two women sane as they travel the long road back to Rome...